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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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RB 78/00013 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study. Barabba gravity low.
The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00157 Cambrian alkali playa-lacustrine sequence in the northeastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00033 Logeval. A computer program for the evaluation of petroleum well logs.
The purpose of petroleum well log evaluation is quantitative determination of the possible presence of hydrocarbons. This necessitates making calculations of porosity and water saturation for many intervals within the well, using various log...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00062 Investigation of a possible site for underground gas storage in the Northern Adelaide Plains.
Exploration for a suitable underground gas storage target in the Northern Adelaide Plains was initiated in 1964. Prior to the present investigation, four other areas have been examined and rejected as target areas, mainly due to the shallow depth of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00005 Source book for the Officer Basin area in South Australia.
This is a bibliographic compilation with index and key maps on petroleum potential, geology, geophysics and palaeontology of the Proterozoic-Palaeozoic Officer Basin, post-Palaeozoic geology, tectonics and other related topics.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 80/00128 Toodla no. 1 well completion report. Report no. 3 of the Eromanga Basin Study Group.
SADME Toodla 1 stratigraphic/exploration well was drilled near the south-western margin of the Eromanga Basin, at a site 18 km ENE of Mount Dutton, in the area between SADME reflection seismic survey shotpoints DK6 and DK7 located at the northern end...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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Marree, Mount Alford, Meta Hill and Etadunna. Joint first progress and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/12/1980.
An assessment of the oil shale potential of marginal Great Artesian Basin sediments in South Australia was carried out, due mainly to their perceived stratigraphic and lithological similarity to Cretaceous strata in Queensland which host the very...-
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Published: 25 Nov 1980
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EPP 24, Otway Basin. Farmin evaluation report.
EPP 24 lies in the north-western corner of the Otway Basin, offshore from Robe, South Australia. The permit geology is dominated by sediments of the Early Cretaceous Otway Group. A tectonic hinge-line called the Chama Terrace runs obliquely from...-
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Stevenson Creek and Mount Bagot. Joint progress reports and technical reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 25/11/1980 to 24/11/1981.
Possible high-yielding oil shales of the Middle Cretaceous Toolebuc Formation, believed to be present within 125 m of the ground surface along the Dalhousie Anticline in the vicinity of previously drilled Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1981
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Novel approaches to the determination of the origins of petroleum hydrocarbons in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin system.
In June 1996 MESA commissioned the Centre for Petroleum and Environmental Organic Geochemistry at Curtin University with $30 000 to investigate the applications to the Cooper-Eromanga Basin system of new molecular geochemical concepts recently...-
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Wilkatana area. Miscellaneous bore sample analyses.
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The Murray Basin Project. Joint progress reports and joint final report to remnant licences' full surrender, for the period 7/10/1980 to 6/12/1984.
Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Petroleum geochemistry and source-rock potential of the Arrowie, Pedirka, Cooper and Eromanga Basins, central Australia.
Samples of ?Ordovician to Cretaceous sediments taken from 5 Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells, and of crude oils recovered from the Jurassic Poolowanna and Triassic Peera Peera Formations intersected in Poolowanna 1, were examined. The...-
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Moorari 3. Test reports.
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Review of Birkhead Formation oil fields in PELs 5 and 6 and ATP 259P.
The geological settings of Birkhead Formation oil fields in the study area are characterised by access to Permian-sourced hydrocarbons. This study has shown that in over 60% of the fields the main Nappamerri Group seal is absent; for those fields...-
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Strzelecki 3. Test reports.
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Published: 27 Jan 1994
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Tirrawarra 18. Test reports.
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